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...started on the revolutionary carrier, a campaign bound up in the argument between Navy and Air Force over the Navy's persistent attempts to edge into the Air Force's field of strategic bombing. In 1948, Navy Captain Hyman Rickover, an engineering officer and atomic specialist working on an atomic submarine design (TIME, Sept. 3, 1951), convinced Navy brass that an atomic carrier was possible too. The Navy held its fire until it had sold the submarine plan to the Joint Chiefs of Staff, knowing that the early developmental work on the submarine could apply as well...
Collector's Item. In Wichita, Kans., six-year-old Leonard Niedens yanked out one of his baby teeth, hid it in his ear, told the specialist who removed it: "I put it there to save it. I liked that tooth...
...Many a country doctor has a machine which will make fine electrocardiograms, but reading them takes extra skill for which a general practitioner usually calls on a specialist. Now, three researchers in Omaha have perfected a preamplifier which turns the patient's weak, direct-current impulses into strong FM signals which can be transmitted over an ordinary telephone and charted at the other end of the line by a heart specialist. The G.P. and the specialist can discuss the patient's heart waves over the same line...
Outside of his pulpit, Bachelor Macartney spends most of his spare time in writing and historical research. A specialist on the Civil War, he has walked over almost every battlefield from Manassas to Shiloh. A good many of his 46 published books are written about historical subjects (e.g., a life of McClellan, several studies of Lincoln); the rest are sermons and devotional works...
...excitement and excessive handling. These, in the early stages, can aggravate the disease. Since most patients are children, a mother's care is best, anyway, and there is a further advantage in having the regular family doctor remain in charge, though he may want to call in a specialist for help. Finally, home care of the milder, nonparalytic cases saves money and leaves hospitals free for the more serious cases, which must be hospitalized...